Marc Beutel, PhD, PE
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Assistant Professor Phone: (509) 335-3721 |
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000 - University of California , Berkeley
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994 - University of California, Berkeley
- B.Sc., Civil Engineering, 1990 - University of California, Los Angeles, Cum Laude
REGISTRATION
- Professional Engineer, State of California C65783
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Professor, Washington State University, 2004-present
- Principal Engineer, Water Resources, Brown and Caldwell, Walnut Creek, CA, 2001-2004
- Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-2000
- Junior/Assistant Engineer, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA, 1990-1993
AWARDS
- NFS 2008 CAREER Grant Program, Environmental Engineering. Fundamental Understanding of Mercury Cycling in Lakes and Use of Reservation-Based Research to Recruit American Indians into Environmental Engineering and Science.
- Agouron Institute Fellowship in Microbial Ecology, 2008-2012. Microbial Ecology of Mercury Cycling in Freshwater Lake.
- WSU 2005 Faculty Seed Grant. Enhanced Biodegradation of Chlorpyrifos in Constructed Treatment Wetlands Using Wet-Dry Pulsing.
- Fulbright Post-Doctoral Award, 2000-2001, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum Limnological Institute, Lucerne.
RESEARCH
- Mercury: Cycling in Lake Ecosystems; Affects of Redox Potential on Mercury Efflux from Profundal Sediments
- Lake and Reservoir Management: Lake Oxygenation; Mercury Cycling in Lake Ecosystems; Exchange of Compounds between Profundal Sediments and Water Column; Saline Lakes.
- Natural Treatment Systems: Constructed Wetlands for Nitrate Removal; Enhancing Ammonia Removal in Natural Treatment Systems.
TEACHING
- Mechanics of Fluids (undergraduate)
- Environmental Microbiology (graduate)
- Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems (graduate)
- Mercury and Nitrogen Cycling in Aquatic Ecosystems (graduate)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Beutel, M.W., C.D. Newton, E.S. Brouillard and R.J. Watts (2009). "Nitrate removal in surface-flow constructed wetlands treating dilute agricultural runoff in the lower Yakima Basin, Washington". Ecological Engineering. In review.
- Dent, S.R., M.W. Beutel, G.A .Gill and B.K. Lasorsa. (2009). “Methylmercury release from profundal lake sediments under aerobic and anaerobic conditions”. Water Research. In review.
- Palmer, H.R., M.W. Beutel and S.Y. Gebremariam (2009). "High rates of ammonia removal in oxygen-activated nitrifying wetland mesocosms". Journal of Environmental Engineering. In press.
- Lancaster, C., M.W. Beutel and D.R. Yonge. (2009). "Evaluation of roadside infiltration to manage stormwater runoff in semi-arid eastern Washington". Environmental Engineering Science. In press. 26(5).
- Churchill, J.J., M.W. Beutel and P. Burgoon. (2009). "Evaluation of the optimal alum dose and mixing regime for alum treatment of Matthiesen Creek inflow to Jameson Lake, WA". Lake and Res. Management. 25:102-110.
- Gebremariam, S.Y. and M.W. Beutel. (2008). “Nitrate Removal and DO Levels in Batch Wetland Mesocosms: Cattail (Typha spp.) versus Bulrush (Scirpus spp.)”. Ecological Engineering. 34:1-6.
- Beutel, M.W., N.R. Burley and S.R. Dent. (2008). “Nitrate uptake rate in anoxic profundal sediments from a eutrophic reservoir”. Hydrobiologia. 610(1):297-306.
- Beutel, M.W., T.M. Leonard, S.R. Dent and B.C. Moore. (2008). “Effects of aerobic and anaerobic conditions on P, N, Fe, Mn and Hg accumulation in waters overlaying profundal sediments of an oligo-mesotrophic lake”. Water Research. 42:1953-1962.
- Beutel, M.W., A.J. Horne, W.D. Taylor, R.F. Losee and R.D. Whitney. (2008) “Effects of oxygen and nitrate on nutrient release from profundal sediments from a large, mesotrophic reservoir, Lake Mathews, California”. Lake and Reservoir Management. 24(1):18-29.
- Beutel, M.W., I. Hannoun, J. Pasek and K. Bowman Kavanagh. (2007) “Hypolimnetic oxygenation pre-design study for a large eutrophic raw water reservoir, San Vicente Reservoir, CA”. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 133(2):130-138.
- Beutel, M.W. (2006) “Inhibition of ammonia release from anoxic profundal sediments in lakes using hypolimnetic oxygenation”. Ecological Engineering. 28:271-279.
- Beutel, M.W., N. Burley and K. Culmer. (2006) “Quantifying the effects of water velocity and oxygen concentration on sediment oxygen demand”. Hydrological Sciences and Technology, Journal of the American Institute of Hydrology. 22(4):15-28.
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